cygwin/sshd safe to install?

[vjl]

Hi all,

We're running an FM Server 5.5 under Windows 2000. I understand that keeping "windows file sharing" turned off is a big time requirement. Coming from a UNIX background, I would like to install cygwin so that I can run an sshd server on the Windows 2000 box so I can make backups from a UNIX-based backup server [currently the FM Server is making local backups to a separate directory on the same PC via the FM backup function].

I would like to know if installing sshd is considered 'safe' since to FileMaker Server. I assume so, but I wanted to check with the wizards here first.

Thanks,

/vjl/

[Wim Decorte]

"safe" can not easily be qualified. Any additional task you put on the server increases the risk of something going wrong.

Why not allow a samba share on your Unix server and use a batch file/vbscript to push the FMS backups from the FMS machine to the Unix server so you can use the Unix backup from there.